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"lemma","pos","cefr_level","coverage_rank","context_sentence","context_sentence_zh","definition_zh"
"unlock","Verb","UNKNOWN","4001","Jill had never even heard of the magic stones before, let alone used one, but now she felt as if she could handle them fairly well, as if their secrets had been unlocked to her in the blink of an eye.","",""
"exploding","Verb","UNKNOWN","4002","""Not so hard a task!"" Master Jojonah said suddenly, exploding with delight.","",""
"travels","Noun","UNKNOWN","4003","Take care in your travels, my young friend, for you may soon be lost!""
"pirate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4001","""To be in sight of land would mean to be in sight of pirates."" He snorted and walked away, but paused, looked back, and motioned to them.","",""
"unknowing","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4002","Only unknowing blackness.","",""
"rejoin","Verb","UNKNOWN","4003","Avelyn wasn't sure the man had ever rejoined them the previous night, and indeed he looked haggard but certainly not displeased.","",""
"approval","Noun","UNKNOWN","4004","Quintall nodded his approval and Thagraine led the eager Pellimar away.","",""
"climbing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4005","Jill sheathed her sword instead, pulled her belt off, and leaped out from the wall, beyond the climbing dwarf.","",""
"expense","Noun","UNKNOWN","4006","The other three townsfolk joined in the laughter, more than willing to do so at Elbryan's expense.","",""
"diversion","Plural","UNKNOWN","4007","All his adult life had been devoted to his studies; there had been no time for such diversions.","",""
"bien","Noun","UNKNOWN","4008","Those wicked stories of Bien deLouisa flitted through his memory.","",""
"delouisa","Noun","UNKNOWN","4009","Those wicked stories of Bien deLouisa flitted through his memory.","",""
"stateroom","Noun","UNKNOWN","4010","Every time he passed that cabin door, a small stateroom just behind the quarters of Captain Adjonas, he trembled.","",""
"fitful","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4011","He awoke, from his fitful sleep before the dawn.","",""
"tossing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4012","His sleep every night was fitful, tossing and turning even more than did the Windrunner on the rough swells.","",""
"meld","Verb","UNKNOWN","4013","All his dreams melded into that singular, mounting fear.","",""
"caricature","Noun","UNKNOWN","4014","The cave seemed a gigantic caricature of a king's throne room.","",""
"amble","Verb","UNKNOWN","4015","The old man ambled away on bowed legs.","",""
"aft","Noun","UNKNOWN","4016","He rubbed his hands together and started aft.","",""
"gravely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4017","Avelyn nodded gravely, not liking where this was going.","",""
"shipboard","Noun","UNKNOWN","4018","For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous.","",""
"dealing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4019","His actions now carried serious consequences concerning his future dealings with his three companions.","",""
"framed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4020","Her face seemed tiny, framed by the voluminous hair, but cute, if not beautiful, and her frame, too, was small and thin.","",""
"cute","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4021","Her face seemed tiny, framed by the voluminous hair, but cute, if not beautiful, and her frame, too, was small and thin.","",""
"hem","Noun","UNKNOWN","4022","""Well, good enough then,"" she said, and she tossed the blanket onto the bed, then reached for the hem of her short shirt, pulling it up.","",""
"elevate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4023","This fifth target, some hundred yards away, was the first for which Elbryan had to elevate his shot.","",""
"mankind","Noun","UNKNOWN","4024","The weakness of mankind, the impiety of.","",""
"itchy","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4025","""A bit itchy?""
Avelyn retracted his hand a few inches, wondering if he was being a bit foolish here.","",""
"dense","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4004","It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense.","",""
"due","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4005","""All in your due time,"" he said softly.","",""
"tile","Noun","UNKNOWN","4006","He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor.","",""
"registered","Verb","UNKNOWN","4007","He was beyond them before that dangerous notion fully registered, drifting higher, through the next ceiling into an empty room, then through that ceiling and the next and the next and the next, this last one much thicker.","",""
"spots","Noun","UNKNOWN","4008","He couldn't think of any defensible spots nearby, but perhaps he could strengthen this one.","",""
"promises","Noun","UNKNOWN","4009","He remembered in incredible detail: all that he had been, all the promises of his mortal life.","",""
"alien","Noun","UNKNOWN","4010","He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.","",""
"seemingly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4011","He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction.","",""
"induce","Infinitive","UNKNOWN","4012","He even compared what had happened to Avelyn with the tablets given to a monk with a stomachache to induce a belch or a fart.","",""
"melting","Verb","UNKNOWN","4013","As he listened, Avelyn felt the mystery melting around him.","",""
"instructor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4014","His evenings, to his surprise, were most often spent with Tuntun, for the female had been the primary instructor, and friend, of Mather, a man about whom Elbryan desperately wanted to learn more.","",""
"select","Noun","UNKNOWN","4015","""You should be among those select few who make the journey,"" Master Jojonah declared, and the weight of the statement drew Avelyn back to him.","",""
"carrion","Noun","UNKNOWN","4016","CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds
""I am a man,"" Avelyn assured her in all confidence.","",""
"southwest","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4026","The Windrunner made great time, cutting southwest from the southern reaches of the Mantis Arm in a direct run to Freeport.","",""
"undertow","Noun","UNKNOWN","4027","So she shed her red Coastpoint jacket and her heavy boots and went over the side, fighting the undertow every inch of the way through the icy water.","",""
"sooner","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4028","Sooner or later, one of the pairs, or perhaps both, would stumble upon the dactyl or some of its deadly minions.","",""
"safely","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4029","Finally came the welcome sound of oars and the boat, all three safely aboard.","",""
"uncharacteristic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4030","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"landscape","Noun","UNKNOWN","4031","The wind rushed past his ears, the landscape flying along beneath, such a thrill of the run, such a smoothness of stride, that Elbryan would have sworn he was flying across a cushion of air.","",""
"define","Verb","UNKNOWN","4032","He was naked, at least from the belly up, with a powerful upper body, muscles clearly defined, and an arched back.","",""
"bulging","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4033","- halfway around the bulging forearm.","",""
"stance","Noun","UNKNOWN","4034","Elbryan found that he could not possibly maintain such a stance.","",""
"tragic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4035","All the world, save Avelyn and the perpetrators, would think this a tragic accident.","",""
"cheat","Verb","UNKNOWN","4036","When the ways of merchants turn cheating,
She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again.","",""
"beckon","Verb","UNKNOWN","4017","It caressed him and beckoned him.","",""
"lumber","Noun","UNKNOWN","4018","She followed it as if in a dream, gingerly reaching up to touch the piece of lumber that had fallen to partially block the hole.","",""
"listening","Noun","UNKNOWN","4019","She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe.","",""
"survivor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4020","But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants.","",""
"guttural","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4021","But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants.","",""
"decidedly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4022","They had no idea if that passage down below led anywhere, after all, and the eight-foot leap would be decidedly more difficult coming up the angled walkway.","",""
"sunlight","Noun","UNKNOWN","4023","He found that he believed her, and he walked back out into the sunlight truly relieved, but not in the way that the others, particularly Quintall, could ever have guessed.","",""
"thickly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4024","Pony only saw a couple from this angle, a goblin and an older woman, but the stench of death hung as thickly in the air as the smoke from the fires.","",""
"preferable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4025","For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.","",""
"tearing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4026","Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.","",""
"vulture","Plural","UNKNOWN","4027","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"circling","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4028","Only the vultures, dozens and dozens, some circling overhead, most on the ground feasting, tearing at skin that had been warm to Pony's touch just the day before, pecking at eyes that had locked with her own, shared gaze and shared thought.","",""
"peck","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4029","Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.","",""
"bedraggle","Verb","UNKNOWN","4030","Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.","",""
"dried","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4031","Elbryan sat up and rubbed his face, noting the cut and dried blood on one of his hands.","",""
"span","Noun","UNKNOWN","4032","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"unbelievable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4033","In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.","",""
"northernmost","Noun","UNKNOWN","4034","Even from this distance, fifty yards from the northernmost point of the village, Elbryan felt in his heart that no one could have survived such a disaster.","",""
"slack","Noun","UNKNOWN","4035","His face ashen, his heart pounding -
When the legs of women bow,
- but offering no energy to arms that hung slack at his side or to legs that seemed suddenly as if they each weighed a hundred pounds - the young man, feeling very much a little lost boy, walked home.","",""
"threshold","Noun","UNKNOWN","4036","On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.","",""
"carralee","Noun","UNKNOWN","4037","Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.","",""
"timber","Noun","UNKNOWN","4038","He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in.","",""
"spoon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4039","In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.","",""
"saple","Gerund","UNKNOWN","4040","CHAPTER 7 The Blood of Mather
When gain is ill not just.","",""
"awakening","Noun","UNKNOWN","4037","Then he turned his attention to the awakening world about him.","",""
"trench","Noun","UNKNOWN","4038","There are reports of a trench, a great upheaval, not twenty miles beyond our valley.""
""The blood of Mather!"" scoffed Tuntun, an elf maiden so slight of build that she could easily hide behind a third-year sapling.","",""
"defiant","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4041","Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more.","",""
"fondness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4042","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"bumbling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4043","Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans.","",""
"spade","Noun","UNKNOWN","4044","He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.","",""
"scope","Noun","UNKNOWN","4045","He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task.","",""
"suffice","Verb","UNKNOWN","4046","That would have to suffice.","",""
"underneath","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4047","He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent.","",""
"stamina","Noun","UNKNOWN","4048","Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina.","",""
"sapling","Noun","UNKNOWN","4049","He had to leap away instead, far out to the side, crashing through twigs and saplings, for the boulder superheated, turned red, and then melted away right below him!","",""
"career","Noun","UNKNOWN","4050","He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan.","",""
"adept","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4051","He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan.","",""
"limited","Verb","UNKNOWN","4052","Only the keenest of eyes could have picked him out within that blocking canopy, but of course, his field of vision likewise was severely limited.","",""
"fairy","Noun","UNKNOWN","4053","The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.","",""
"circular","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4054","It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.","",""
"dancer","Noun","UNKNOWN","4055","But this - "" She held her hand out to the revelry, to the half-naked dancer who, as if on cue, tumbled from the table.","",""
"distaste","Noun","UNKNOWN","4056","Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.","",""
"coarse","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4057","She knew, as did all the gathering, that there was no possible way she could have stumbled into such a coarse trap had not a bit of magic been worked.","",""
"candidate","Noun","UNKNOWN","4058","For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult.","",""
"seamanship","Noun","UNKNOWN","4059","Avelyn could not keep up with his three companions in the matters of fighting or seamanship; and in the religious training, the young brother grew more and more frustrated.","",""
"latitude","Noun","UNKNOWN","4060","Elbryan didn't know exactly where Andur'Blough Inninness was located, but he suspected they were somewhere in the northern latitudes of Corona, beyond the Wilderlands border of Honce-the-Bear.","",""
"variety","Noun","UNKNOWN","4061","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"knot","Noun","UNKNOWN","4062","They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.","",""
"reputed","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4063","He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.","",""
"security","Noun","UNKNOWN","4064","There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility.","",""
"core","Noun","UNKNOWN","4065","To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.","",""
"retrieval","Noun","UNKNOWN","4066","All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.","",""
"positions","Noun","UNKNOWN","4067","Toward his fellow Preparers, young men he would compete against for the coveted two positions of those who would actually step onto the island of Pimaninicuit, Avelyn felt no rivalry.","",""
"brightness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4068","During the long hours put in at night, not one of the other three came close to him; they were still mired in charting the stars when Avelyn had moved on to the specific humours that caused the ""magical"" reaction, having already passed through the recognition of the stones by touch as well as sight and the recognition of their potential intensity by their brightness, shape, and hue.","",""
"daytime","Noun","UNKNOWN","4069","The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.","",""
"revelation","Plural","UNKNOWN","4070","He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night.","",""
"sunrise","Noun","UNKNOWN","4071","He noted that the sky had turned a funny color, a purplish, rosy hue the likes of which Avelyn had only seen at sunrise or sunset, and then only on the appropriate horizon.","",""
"noon","Noun","UNKNOWN","4072","The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset.","",""
"frigid","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4073","In addition, all four were taught the ways of the sea, spending many hours on a small boat rocking in the waves on the rough, frigid waters of All Saints Bay.","",""
"barehand","PastTense","UNKNOWN","4074","For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.","",""
"pounding","Noun","UNKNOWN","4075","And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.","",""
"mutual","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4076","There was supposed to be no anger toward an opponent, only respect and mutual learning, but Quintall growled whenever the masters paired him against Avelyn.","",""
"superiority","Noun","UNKNOWN","4077","He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.","",""
"serpent","Noun","UNKNOWN","4078","In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a ""serpent hand"" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.","",""
"eliminate","Verb","UNKNOWN","4079","The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.","",""
"goose","Noun","UNKNOWN","4080","Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.","",""
"cocky","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4081","Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?","",""
"text","Noun","UNKNOWN","4082","Sometimes that work entailed exhaustive study, reading text after text and reciting procedures so many times in rapid succession that Avelyn would often continue reciting them after he had gone to sleep.","",""
"vague","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4083","Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.","",""
"twinkle","Noun","UNKNOWN","4084","Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.","",""
"pet","Noun","UNKNOWN","4085","""The war goes well, my pet,"" the dactyl went on.","",""
"types","Noun","UNKNOWN","4086","There were nearly fifty different types at the abbey, each with its own particular properties, and each individual stone with its own particular intensity.","",""
"factor","Noun","UNKNOWN","4087","Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?","",""
"ascension","Noun","UNKNOWN","4088","There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.","",""
"dreary","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4089","He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.","",""
"staircase","Noun","UNKNOWN","4090","""Finished already?"" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.","",""
"eavesdrop","Noun","UNKNOWN","4091","Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.","",""
"unintentionally","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4092","""Not a test, but a show,"" Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.","",""
"upraise","Verb","UNKNOWN","4093","Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.","",""
"awestruck","Verb","UNKNOWN","4094","From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.","",""
"register","Verb","UNKNOWN","4095","""You have used the stones?""
Juraviel looked to the north, to the wild lands beyond his elven home and far beyond the settlements of any humans.","",""
"upheaval","Noun","UNKNOWN","4039","There are reports of a trench, a great upheaval, not twenty miles beyond our valley.""
It took a long moment for Avelyn even to register the question.","",""
"chrysotile","Noun","UNKNOWN","4096","He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.","",""
"bars","Noun","UNKNOWN","4097","The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage.","",""
"disparate","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4098","Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.","",""
"nonetheless","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4099","Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.","",""
"gleam","Noun","UNKNOWN","4100","Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.","",""
Juraviel looked to the north, to the wild lands beyond his elven home and far beyond the settlements of any humans.","",""
"stickler","Noun","UNKNOWN","4040","At first, Jill thought the new warder more her style, a stickler for detail and duty.","",""
"attune","Verb","UNKNOWN","4041","Compelled I say, pulled by the magic of the stones, by a distant power that long ago attuned itself to these special stones.""
Pony looked at him curiously, not really understanding.","",""
"uncanny","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4042","Around and around the weapons went, reminding Elbryan of her uncanny dexterity.","",""
"precision","Noun","UNKNOWN","4043","But that quickness and precision would not be enough, Elbryan told himself.","",""
"underhand","Noun","UNKNOWN","4044","Perfect height for an underhand swing.","",""
"vertical","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4045","The elf squealed and threw her sword out to the side, blade vertical, its tip nearly touching the ground.","",""
"occur","Verb","UNKNOWN","4046","And so they fought, evenly matched, for a long while, poles sometimes slapping together so rapidly that it occurred to Elbryan that, if they had some kindling, they might light a fire from friction alone!","",""
"err","Verb","UNKNOWN","4047","I feared that I had erred in my course, that I had returned home by memory, not by vision.","",""
"unpredictable","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4048","He thought himself foolish as he neared the unpredictable Tuntun, expecting that she would find the strength to drive her dirk into his face, thus claiming a draw.","",""
"weakened","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4049","She couldn't even talk, and her dirk, like her sword before it, slipped uselessly from her weakened hand.","",""
"altered","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4050","What, then, had so altered this one?","",""
"earthquake","Noun","UNKNOWN","4051","The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.","",""
"earthquakes","Verb","UNKNOWN","4052","Earthquakes and thunderstorms, swirling tornadoes, even exploding volcanoes, were more often than not natural events.","",""
"thunderstorm","Noun","UNKNOWN","4053","Earthquakes and thunderstorms, swirling tornadoes, even exploding volcanoes, were more often than not natural events.","",""
"volcano","Noun","UNKNOWN","4054","Earthquakes and thunderstorms, swirling tornadoes, even exploding volcanoes, were more often than not natural events.","",""
"magnetic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4055","Lodestone was highly magnetic; its enchantment would send it fast to a metal surface.","",""
"brothel","Noun","UNKNOWN","4056","His other needs could be taken care of in the many brothels that openly offered their wares in the city, but of course he didn't need to tell Jill, his Jilly, about that.","",""
"ware","Noun","UNKNOWN","4057","His other needs could be taken care of in the many brothels that openly offered their wares in the city, but of course he didn't need to tell Jill, his Jilly, about that.","",""
"refuge","Noun","UNKNOWN","4058","She couldn't look at the man but kept her eyes locked on the stars, as if seeking refuge high above.","",""
"proposal","Noun","UNKNOWN","4059","Her first instinct told her to refuse the proposal.","",""
"considering","Noun","UNKNOWN","4060","She believed him with all her heart, and she had come to love him, so she thought: What else could it be called, after all, considering that her smile came so easily whenever he was in sight?","",""
"hopping","Noun","UNKNOWN","4061","Pettibwa was distinctly more animated, hopping up and down, breasts and belly bouncing wildly, and clapping her hands together, her cheeks fast streaking with an outburst of tears.","",""
"plush","Noun","UNKNOWN","4062","No longer did the island seem so plush and inviting.","",""
"discard","Verb","UNKNOWN","4063","Grady knew too much about Connor's nighttime pursuits for the nobleman to discard him, and though Grady had never even hinted at blackmail, Connor understood him well enough to fear him.","",""
"applaud","Verb","UNKNOWN","4064","Putting your maidenhead on a barbed hook and jiggling it before the baron's nephew.""
Grady silently applauded his conniving little sister, though his perception of her actions almost scared him; he had never thought her capable of such a beautifully treacherous play.","",""
"feigning","Noun","UNKNOWN","4065","The monk leaped ahead, feigning a punch and kicking straight out for Elbryan's knee.","",""
"royalty","Noun","UNKNOWN","4066","""A lady must be well practiced in the ways of lovemaking for royalty,"" one of them remarked.","",""
"nonsense","Noun","UNKNOWN","4067","One of the giants continued to stammer on about bad luck and other such nonsense, trying hard to concoct some excuse that might keep its skin attached to its body.","",""
"tonight","Noun","UNKNOWN","4068","""Tonight.""
And then he had left Jill with the thought.","",""
"inhibition","Plural","UNKNOWN","4069","He was trying to loosen up her inhibitions, and she was, too.","",""
"mansion","Noun","UNKNOWN","4070","And then the night, spent in the mansion of Baron Bildeborough!","",""
"obscene","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4071","For Jill, who had spent her life so simply, it seemed somehow obscene; a dozen people could sleep comfortably on that bed, and she needed a stepping stool to even get onto it!","",""
"kissing","Noun","UNKNOWN","4072","Jill felt her knees buckle and she would have gone down, except Connor was on her again, squeezing her tight, kissing her all about the face and neck.","",""
"tenderness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4073","Even worse, there was no love, no tenderness in his face as he stalked back to her, just heated desire, an almost angry passion.","",""
"hesitance","Noun","UNKNOWN","4074","Her hesitance incited his rage once more.","",""
"incite","Verb","UNKNOWN","4075","Her hesitance incited his rage once more.","",""
"pleadingly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4076","She looked up pleadingly at the two women that held her, but both seemed impassive, even somehow pleased by it all, by the sight of her, and of Connor - seemed pleased by her helplessness and their part in it.","",""
"helplessness","Noun","UNKNOWN","4077","The centaur understood what the man was feeling, the sense of his own loss those years before and the helplessness now in the face of a repeat of that disaster.","",""
"magistrate","Noun","UNKNOWN","4078","""We shall let the magistrate, Abbot Dobrinion, determine her fate in the morning.","",""
"blister","Verb","UNKNOWN","4079","He burned and blistered, then browned, darker and darker, taking on the leathery appearance of those seasoned sailors around him.","",""
"leathery","Noun","UNKNOWN","4080","He burned and blistered, then browned, darker and darker, taking on the leathery appearance of those seasoned sailors around him.","",""
"scraggly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4081","He tried to keep clean shaven, as did his monk companions, but there was no blade fine enough, and soon all three had scraggly beards.","",""
"romantic","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4082","All romantic notions Avelyn had held concerning sea voyages were long gone, washed away by the slow, creaking, rolling reality.","",""
"forbid","Verb","UNKNOWN","4083","Even to utter the, name of the island without Father Abbot's permission was forbidden.","",""
"including","Noun","UNKNOWN","4084","Even if he beat these two, others were coming fast, including the one with the glowing spike!","",""
"crimson","Noun","UNKNOWN","4085","Soft blues and purples, vivid oranges and sometimes a deep crimson lined the night sky, lifting hearts and spirits.","",""
"unrelenting","Adjective","UNKNOWN","4086","Adjonas' voice was grim and unrelenting.","",""
"waylay","Verb","UNKNOWN","4087","""They waylay ships simply to kill.","",""
"newfound","Noun","UNKNOWN","4088","A light snow had begun to fall all across the forest, but it seemed to shy from the ranger's camp, from the heat of the ranger's fire, from the warmth of Brother Avelyn's newfound home.","",""
"pillage","Noun","UNKNOWN","4089","They attack only to pillage enough stores to get them to the next ship and for the simple thrill of the hunt and torture.""","",""
"mister","Noun","UNKNOWN","4090","""Fill our sails, Mister Smealy,"" he instructed.","",""
"trader","Noun","UNKNOWN","4091","""Yach, trader, give her up!","",""
"operation","Singular","UNKNOWN","4092","Adjonas motioned to Bunkus Smealy; this was Quintall's operation now, and the Windrunner captain, with no other apparent options, was more than willing to give the sturdy monk his chance.","",""
"smoothly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4093","The barrelboat closed - fifty yards, forty, twenty - cutting the water smoothly.","",""
"diagonal","Noun","UNKNOWN","4094","Then it jerked suddenly and its straight run shifted to the diagonal.","",""
"ladder","Noun","UNKNOWN","4095","The dwarf caught the gem securely, but surrendered his hold on the ladder.","",""
"hatchway","Noun","UNKNOWN","4096","He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.","",""
"evilly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4097","The dwarf lifted its sword, grinning evilly, and let out a wail that shook Avelyn to the marrow of his bones :as he lay prone not far away.","",""
"spindly","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4098","With their heavy bodies and spindly limbs, powries were not strong swimmers, and Quintall easily overtook the dazed creature, pushing it under the water and gaining a seat atop its shoulders.","",""
"temporarily","Adverb","UNKNOWN","4099","The barrelboat was disabled temporarily, but the fight was hardly over.","",""
"concert","Noun","UNKNOWN","4100","Powries and sharks worked in concert, so it was said, but apparently there were limits to such friendship.","",""
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2 unlock pirate Verb UNKNOWN 4001 Jill had never even heard of the magic stones before, let alone used one, but now she felt as if she could handle them fairly well, as if their secrets had been unlocked to her in the blink of an eye. "To be in sight of land would mean to be in sight of pirates." He snorted and walked away, but paused, looked back, and motioned to them.
3 exploding unknowing Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 4002 "Not so hard a task!" Master Jojonah said suddenly, exploding with delight. Only unknowing blackness.
4 travels rejoin Noun Verb UNKNOWN 4003 Take care in your travels, my young friend, for you may soon be lost!" Avelyn retracted his hand a few inches, wondering if he was being a bit foolish here. Avelyn wasn't sure the man had ever rejoined them the previous night, and indeed he looked haggard but certainly not displeased.
5 approval Noun UNKNOWN 4004 Quintall nodded his approval and Thagraine led the eager Pellimar away.
6 climbing Noun UNKNOWN 4005 Jill sheathed her sword instead, pulled her belt off, and leaped out from the wall, beyond the climbing dwarf.
7 expense Noun UNKNOWN 4006 The other three townsfolk joined in the laughter, more than willing to do so at Elbryan's expense.
8 diversion Plural UNKNOWN 4007 All his adult life had been devoted to his studies; there had been no time for such diversions.
9 bien Noun UNKNOWN 4008 Those wicked stories of Bien deLouisa flitted through his memory.
10 delouisa Noun UNKNOWN 4009 Those wicked stories of Bien deLouisa flitted through his memory.
11 stateroom Noun UNKNOWN 4010 Every time he passed that cabin door, a small stateroom just behind the quarters of Captain Adjonas, he trembled.
12 fitful Adjective UNKNOWN 4011 He awoke, from his fitful sleep before the dawn.
13 tossing Noun UNKNOWN 4012 His sleep every night was fitful, tossing and turning even more than did the Windrunner on the rough swells.
14 meld Verb UNKNOWN 4013 All his dreams melded into that singular, mounting fear.
15 caricature Noun UNKNOWN 4014 The cave seemed a gigantic caricature of a king's throne room.
16 amble Verb UNKNOWN 4015 The old man ambled away on bowed legs.
17 aft Noun UNKNOWN 4016 He rubbed his hands together and started aft.
18 gravely Adverb UNKNOWN 4017 Avelyn nodded gravely, not liking where this was going.
19 shipboard Noun UNKNOWN 4018 For Avelyn, this was a most sacred mission, the most important duty of the Abellican Church, and to profane it so by indulging in a shipboard orgy, was surely blasphemous.
20 dealing Noun UNKNOWN 4019 His actions now carried serious consequences concerning his future dealings with his three companions.
21 framed Adjective UNKNOWN 4020 Her face seemed tiny, framed by the voluminous hair, but cute, if not beautiful, and her frame, too, was small and thin.
22 cute Adjective UNKNOWN 4021 Her face seemed tiny, framed by the voluminous hair, but cute, if not beautiful, and her frame, too, was small and thin.
23 hem Noun UNKNOWN 4022 "Well, good enough then," she said, and she tossed the blanket onto the bed, then reached for the hem of her short shirt, pulling it up.
24 elevate Verb UNKNOWN 4023 This fifth target, some hundred yards away, was the first for which Elbryan had to elevate his shot.
25 mankind Noun UNKNOWN 4024 The weakness of mankind, the impiety of.
26 itchy Adjective UNKNOWN 4025 "A bit itchy?" "I am a man," Avelyn assured her in all confidence.
27 dense southwest Adjective UNKNOWN 4004 4026 It was heavier than Avelyn had expected, quite solid and dense. The Windrunner made great time, cutting southwest from the southern reaches of the Mantis Arm in a direct run to Freeport.
28 due undertow Adjective Noun UNKNOWN 4005 4027 "All in your due time," he said softly. So she shed her red Coastpoint jacket and her heavy boots and went over the side, fighting the undertow every inch of the way through the icy water.
29 tile sooner Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 4006 4028 He marveled at the loose structure of the wood, at the density of the higher room's tile floor. Sooner or later, one of the pairs, or perhaps both, would stumble upon the dactyl or some of its deadly minions.
30 registered safely Verb Adverb UNKNOWN 4007 4029 He was beyond them before that dangerous notion fully registered, drifting higher, through the next ceiling into an empty room, then through that ceiling and the next and the next and the next, this last one much thicker. Finally came the welcome sound of oars and the boat, all three safely aboard.
31 spots uncharacteristic Noun Adjective UNKNOWN 4008 4030 He couldn't think of any defensible spots nearby, but perhaps he could strengthen this one. Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?
32 promises landscape Noun UNKNOWN 4009 4031 He remembered in incredible detail: all that he had been, all the promises of his mortal life. The wind rushed past his ears, the landscape flying along beneath, such a thrill of the run, such a smoothness of stride, that Elbryan would have sworn he was flying across a cushion of air.
33 alien define Noun Verb UNKNOWN 4010 4032 He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction. He was naked, at least from the belly up, with a powerful upper body, muscles clearly defined, and an arched back.
34 seemingly bulging Adverb Adjective UNKNOWN 4011 4033 He talked of the humours of the body joining together with the alien humours of the stones to create the seemingly magical reaction. - halfway around the bulging forearm.
35 induce stance Infinitive Noun UNKNOWN 4012 4034 He even compared what had happened to Avelyn with the tablets given to a monk with a stomachache to induce a belch or a fart. Elbryan found that he could not possibly maintain such a stance.
36 melting tragic Verb Adjective UNKNOWN 4013 4035 As he listened, Avelyn felt the mystery melting around him. All the world, save Avelyn and the perpetrators, would think this a tragic accident.
37 instructor cheat Noun Verb UNKNOWN 4014 4036 His evenings, to his surprise, were most often spent with Tuntun, for the female had been the primary instructor, and friend, of Mather, a man about whom Elbryan desperately wanted to learn more. When the ways of merchants turn cheating, When the legs of women bow, When gain is ill not just.
38 select awakening Noun UNKNOWN 4015 4037 "You should be among those select few who make the journey," Master Jojonah declared, and the weight of the statement drew Avelyn back to him. Then he turned his attention to the awakening world about him.
39 carrion trench Noun UNKNOWN 4016 4038 CHAPTER 6 Carrion Birds She came back to consciousness never expecting to see the wide sky again. There are reports of a trench, a great upheaval, not twenty miles beyond our valley." Juraviel looked to the north, to the wild lands beyond his elven home and far beyond the settlements of any humans.
beckon Verb UNKNOWN 4017 It caressed him and beckoned him.
lumber Noun UNKNOWN 4018 She followed it as if in a dream, gingerly reaching up to touch the piece of lumber that had fallen to partially block the hole.
40 listening upheaval Noun UNKNOWN 4019 4039 She settled back and sat very still, listening intently, not even daring to breathe. There are reports of a trench, a great upheaval, not twenty miles beyond our valley." Juraviel looked to the north, to the wild lands beyond his elven home and far beyond the settlements of any humans.
41 survivor stickler Noun UNKNOWN 4020 4040 But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants. At first, Jill thought the new warder more her style, a stickler for detail and duty.
guttural Adjective UNKNOWN 4021 But nothing else came to her - not the whimper of a survivor, not the whining, grating voice of a goblin, not the guttural grunts of the fomorian giants.
decidedly Adverb UNKNOWN 4022 They had no idea if that passage down below led anywhere, after all, and the eight-foot leap would be decidedly more difficult coming up the angled walkway.
sunlight Noun UNKNOWN 4023 He found that he believed her, and he walked back out into the sunlight truly relieved, but not in the way that the others, particularly Quintall, could ever have guessed.
thickly Adverb UNKNOWN 4024 Pony only saw a couple from this angle, a goblin and an older woman, but the stench of death hung as thickly in the air as the smoke from the fires.
preferable Adjective UNKNOWN 4025 For the boy who had just witnessed such carnage and loss, the semiconscious state was preferable.
tearing Noun UNKNOWN 4026 Elbryan jerked fiercely, once and then again, the tearing jolts straightening the agonized fomorian.
vulture Plural UNKNOWN 4027 Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
circling Adjective UNKNOWN 4028 Only the vultures, dozens and dozens, some circling overhead, most on the ground feasting, tearing at skin that had been warm to Pony's touch just the day before, pecking at eyes that had locked with her own, shared gaze and shared thought.
peck Gerund UNKNOWN 4029 Surely all the world had fallen to ruin; surely all the people were dead, were being pecked and torn by vultures.
bedraggle Verb UNKNOWN 4030 Jill was too bedraggled to blush or even to care.
dried Adjective UNKNOWN 4031 Elbryan sat up and rubbed his face, noting the cut and dried blood on one of his hands.
span Noun UNKNOWN 4032 In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
unbelievable Adjective UNKNOWN 4033 In the span of a few unbelievable minutes, Elbryan's entire world had been thrown down.
northernmost Noun UNKNOWN 4034 Even from this distance, fifty yards from the northernmost point of the village, Elbryan felt in his heart that no one could have survived such a disaster.
slack Noun UNKNOWN 4035 His face ashen, his heart pounding - - but offering no energy to arms that hung slack at his side or to legs that seemed suddenly as if they each weighed a hundred pounds - the young man, feeling very much a little lost boy, walked home.
threshold Noun UNKNOWN 4036 On the charred threshold of one ruin, he saw a tiny corpse, a blackened ball.
carralee Noun UNKNOWN 4037 Carralee Ault, Pony's cousin, Elbryan realized, for she was the only baby in town.
timber Noun UNKNOWN 4038 He pushed aside a timber gingerly, when he heard the remaining roof groan in protest and went down to his knees, peering in.
spoon Noun UNKNOWN 4039 In her hand she clutched her heavy wooden spoon.
42 saple attune Gerund Verb UNKNOWN 4040 4041 CHAPTER 7 The Blood of Mather "The blood of Mather!" scoffed Tuntun, an elf maiden so slight of build that she could easily hide behind a third-year sapling. Compelled I say, pulled by the magic of the stones, by a distant power that long ago attuned itself to these special stones." Pony looked at him curiously, not really understanding.
43 defiant uncanny Adjective UNKNOWN 4041 4042 Soothing sounds, and that made defiant Elbryan panic even more. Around and around the weapons went, reminding Elbryan of her uncanny dexterity.
44 fondness precision Noun UNKNOWN 4042 4043 Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans. But that quickness and precision would not be enough, Elbryan told himself.
45 bumbling underhand Noun UNKNOWN 4043 4044 Tuntun had little fondness for the big, bumbling humans. Perfect height for an underhand swing.
spade Noun UNKNOWN 4044 He put his sword in his belt, found a spade; and began to dig.
scope Noun UNKNOWN 4045 He found Thomas Ault and several other men next, and only then did the already weary youngster realize the scope of his task.
suffice Verb UNKNOWN 4046 That would have to suffice.
46 underneath vertical Adjective UNKNOWN 4047 4045 He found a tall pine with low-hanging branches and slipped underneath them into the natural tent. The elf squealed and threw her sword out to the side, blade vertical, its tip nearly touching the ground.
47 stamina occur Noun Verb UNKNOWN 4048 4046 Even Tuntun was impressed by his stamina. And so they fought, evenly matched, for a long while, poles sometimes slapping together so rapidly that it occurred to Elbryan that, if they had some kindling, they might light a fire from friction alone!
48 sapling err Noun Verb UNKNOWN 4049 4047 He had to leap away instead, far out to the side, crashing through twigs and saplings, for the boulder superheated, turned red, and then melted away right below him! I feared that I had erred in my course, that I had returned home by memory, not by vision.
career Noun UNKNOWN 4050 He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan.
adept Adjective UNKNOWN 4051 He remembered Mather at the start of the legendary ranger's career, a bumbling boy no more adept and probably not even as resourceful as this Elbryan.
limited Verb UNKNOWN 4052 Only the keenest of eyes could have picked him out within that blocking canopy, but of course, his field of vision likewise was severely limited.
fairy Noun UNKNOWN 4053 The teasing fairy song, remaining at the very edge of his consciousness, led Elbryan on for many minutes.
circular Adjective UNKNOWN 4054 It was fairly circular, perhaps eight feet in diameter.
dancer Noun UNKNOWN 4055 But this - " She held her hand out to the revelry, to the half-naked dancer who, as if on cue, tumbled from the table.
distaste Noun UNKNOWN 4056 Avelyn scrunched his face with distaste and disbelief.
coarse Adjective UNKNOWN 4057 She knew, as did all the gathering, that there was no possible way she could have stumbled into such a coarse trap had not a bit of magic been worked.
candidate Noun UNKNOWN 4058 For the four chosen Preparers candidates, Avelyn and Quintall, Thagraine and Pellimar - two students from the class of God's Year 815 - life was even more difficult.
seamanship Noun UNKNOWN 4059 Avelyn could not keep up with his three companions in the matters of fighting or seamanship; and in the religious training, the young brother grew more and more frustrated.
latitude Noun UNKNOWN 4060 Elbryan didn't know exactly where Andur'Blough Inninness was located, but he suspected they were somewhere in the northern latitudes of Corona, beyond the Wilderlands border of Honce-the-Bear.
variety Noun UNKNOWN 4061 They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.
knot Noun UNKNOWN 4062 They learned how to tie ropes in a variety of ways, knots necessary for the many uses aboard a sailing vessel.
reputed Adjective UNKNOWN 4063 He knew its reputed properties, of course, but he had never attempted to use them.
security Noun UNKNOWN 4064 There was security in that, Avelyn came to realize, but also responsibility.
core Noun UNKNOWN 4065 To see such human frailty in the masters of St.-Mere-Abelle touched the very core of Avelyn's faith.
retrieval Noun UNKNOWN 4066 All that should have mattered was the retrieval of the stones.
positions Noun UNKNOWN 4067 Toward his fellow Preparers, young men he would compete against for the coveted two positions of those who would actually step onto the island of Pimaninicuit, Avelyn felt no rivalry.
brightness Noun UNKNOWN 4068 During the long hours put in at night, not one of the other three came close to him; they were still mired in charting the stars when Avelyn had moved on to the specific humours that caused the "magical" reaction, having already passed through the recognition of the stones by touch as well as sight and the recognition of their potential intensity by their brightness, shape, and hue.
daytime Noun UNKNOWN 4069 The daytime training was not as easy or as inspiring for Avelyn.
revelation Plural UNKNOWN 4070 He found the many prayer rituals boring, even trite, in light of the revelations he was finding every night.
sunrise Noun UNKNOWN 4071 He noted that the sky had turned a funny color, a purplish, rosy hue the likes of which Avelyn had only seen at sunrise or sunset, and then only on the appropriate horizon.
noon Noun UNKNOWN 4072 The boy believed the sun to be in the west, halfway from noon to sunset.
frigid Adjective UNKNOWN 4073 In addition, all four were taught the ways of the sea, spending many hours on a small boat rocking in the waves on the rough, frigid waters of All Saints Bay.
barehand PastTense UNKNOWN 4074 For the first year, they would study barehanded techniques, punching and grappling.
pounding Noun UNKNOWN 4075 And through it all, barehanded and with weapons, they would square off against each other, pounding on each other relentlessly.
mutual Adjective UNKNOWN 4076 There was supposed to be no anger toward an opponent, only respect and mutual learning, but Quintall growled whenever the masters paired him against Avelyn.
superiority Noun UNKNOWN 4077 He stood with an air of superiority, posture perfect, hand on gilded rapier.
serpent Noun UNKNOWN 4078 In most of the maneuvers, the monks were supposed to pull their punches, but Quintall often blasted the breath from Avelyn; there was no striking above the shoulders allowed, but more than once, Quintall knifed a "serpent hand" across Avelyn's throat, dropping him to his knees, gasping for breath.
eliminate Verb UNKNOWN 4079 The slips had become too common; Avelyn honestly believed Quintall meant to eliminate the competition.
goose Noun UNKNOWN 4080 Quintall's grin was certainly as far from Godlike as anything Avelyn had ever seen, and the fact that their training with weapons, where wounds could easily become more severe, was not far away, brought goose bumps to the scholarly young man.
cocky Adjective UNKNOWN 4081 Who might this leader of the herd be to inspire such uncharacteristic respect from cocky Bradwarden?
text Noun UNKNOWN 4082 Sometimes that work entailed exhaustive study, reading text after text and reciting procedures so many times in rapid succession that Avelyn would often continue reciting them after he had gone to sleep.
vague Adjective UNKNOWN 4083 Master Jojonah's instructions were vague at best, but Avelyn came to understand them in his heart.
twinkle Noun UNKNOWN 4084 Soon the sky was clear above him, the first stars twinkling into view.
pet Noun UNKNOWN 4085 "The war goes well, my pet," the dactyl went on.
types Noun UNKNOWN 4086 There were nearly fifty different types at the abbey, each with its own particular properties, and each individual stone with its own particular intensity.
factor Noun UNKNOWN 4087 Was their mission the overriding factor here, for if they attacked and were beaten back, killed, or captured, then who would go on to the smoking mountain to stand against the demon dactyl?
ascension Noun UNKNOWN 4088 There were in the abbey no more than four other monks, three of them masters and one Father Abbot Markwart himself, who could so distinguish magical intensity, and that fact had been the determining factor in Dalebert Markwart's ascension to the highest rank, for his chief rival could not determine magical intensity in individual stones.
dreary Adjective UNKNOWN 4089 He set out from the abbey one dark and dreary morning, riding an ash-gray mare, not swift of hoof but long in heart.
staircase Noun UNKNOWN 4090 "Finished already?" Grady called as he descended the wide, sweeping staircase of House Battlebrow, the most renowned brothel in all of Palmaris.
eavesdrop Noun UNKNOWN 4091 Avelyn tried hard not to eavesdrop, but he did catch snatches of the conversation, mostly Siherton complaining vigorously that this was against strict procedure.
unintentionally Adverb UNKNOWN 4092 "Not a test, but a show," Jojonah argued, * unintentionally lifting his voice.
upraise Verb UNKNOWN 4093 Finally, Father Abbot Markwart halted the conversation with an upraised hand.
awestruck Verb UNKNOWN 4094 From the trees behind Elbryan, Pony and Avelyn watched awestruck.
register Verb UNKNOWN 4095 "You have used the stones?" It took a long moment for Avelyn even to register the question.
chrysotile Noun UNKNOWN 4096 He held out his left hand and opened it to show Avelyn three stones: malachite, ringed with various shades of green; shining, polished amber; and a silvery piece of chrysotile, the largest of the three resembling a sheet of straight bars, long and narrow lying side by side.
bars Noun UNKNOWN 4097 The others followed without delay, and their hopes mounted when they came to a heavy grate, bars set floor to ceiling, blocking the passage.
disparate Adjective UNKNOWN 4098 Avelyn considered the sight from two widely disparate viewpoints.
nonetheless Adjective UNKNOWN 4099 Nonetheless, Jojonah began to protest again, but Markwart cut him short.
gleam Noun UNKNOWN 4100 Father Abbot Markwart appeared wickedly intense, the gleam in his eyes seeming almost maniacal, and certainly frightening.
49 unpredictable Adjective UNKNOWN 4048 He thought himself foolish as he neared the unpredictable Tuntun, expecting that she would find the strength to drive her dirk into his face, thus claiming a draw.
50 weakened Adjective UNKNOWN 4049 She couldn't even talk, and her dirk, like her sword before it, slipped uselessly from her weakened hand.
51 altered Adjective UNKNOWN 4050 What, then, had so altered this one?
52 earthquake Noun UNKNOWN 4051 The raid on Dundalis, the sightings of goblins and even giants, the evidence of many, earthquakes to the north of Andur'Blough Inninness - all pointed to the resurgence of the dactyl.
53 earthquakes Verb UNKNOWN 4052 Earthquakes and thunderstorms, swirling tornadoes, even exploding volcanoes, were more often than not natural events.
54 thunderstorm Noun UNKNOWN 4053 Earthquakes and thunderstorms, swirling tornadoes, even exploding volcanoes, were more often than not natural events.
55 volcano Noun UNKNOWN 4054 Earthquakes and thunderstorms, swirling tornadoes, even exploding volcanoes, were more often than not natural events.
56 magnetic Adjective UNKNOWN 4055 Lodestone was highly magnetic; its enchantment would send it fast to a metal surface.
57 brothel Noun UNKNOWN 4056 His other needs could be taken care of in the many brothels that openly offered their wares in the city, but of course he didn't need to tell Jill, his Jilly, about that.
58 ware Noun UNKNOWN 4057 His other needs could be taken care of in the many brothels that openly offered their wares in the city, but of course he didn't need to tell Jill, his Jilly, about that.
59 refuge Noun UNKNOWN 4058 She couldn't look at the man but kept her eyes locked on the stars, as if seeking refuge high above.
60 proposal Noun UNKNOWN 4059 Her first instinct told her to refuse the proposal.
61 considering Noun UNKNOWN 4060 She believed him with all her heart, and she had come to love him, so she thought: What else could it be called, after all, considering that her smile came so easily whenever he was in sight?
62 hopping Noun UNKNOWN 4061 Pettibwa was distinctly more animated, hopping up and down, breasts and belly bouncing wildly, and clapping her hands together, her cheeks fast streaking with an outburst of tears.
63 plush Noun UNKNOWN 4062 No longer did the island seem so plush and inviting.
64 discard Verb UNKNOWN 4063 Grady knew too much about Connor's nighttime pursuits for the nobleman to discard him, and though Grady had never even hinted at blackmail, Connor understood him well enough to fear him.
65 applaud Verb UNKNOWN 4064 Putting your maidenhead on a barbed hook and jiggling it before the baron's nephew." Grady silently applauded his conniving little sister, though his perception of her actions almost scared him; he had never thought her capable of such a beautifully treacherous play.
66 feigning Noun UNKNOWN 4065 The monk leaped ahead, feigning a punch and kicking straight out for Elbryan's knee.
67 royalty Noun UNKNOWN 4066 "A lady must be well practiced in the ways of lovemaking for royalty," one of them remarked.
68 nonsense Noun UNKNOWN 4067 One of the giants continued to stammer on about bad luck and other such nonsense, trying hard to concoct some excuse that might keep its skin attached to its body.
69 tonight Noun UNKNOWN 4068 "Tonight." And then he had left Jill with the thought.
70 inhibition Plural UNKNOWN 4069 He was trying to loosen up her inhibitions, and she was, too.
71 mansion Noun UNKNOWN 4070 And then the night, spent in the mansion of Baron Bildeborough!
72 obscene Adjective UNKNOWN 4071 For Jill, who had spent her life so simply, it seemed somehow obscene; a dozen people could sleep comfortably on that bed, and she needed a stepping stool to even get onto it!
73 kissing Noun UNKNOWN 4072 Jill felt her knees buckle and she would have gone down, except Connor was on her again, squeezing her tight, kissing her all about the face and neck.
74 tenderness Noun UNKNOWN 4073 Even worse, there was no love, no tenderness in his face as he stalked back to her, just heated desire, an almost angry passion.
75 hesitance Noun UNKNOWN 4074 Her hesitance incited his rage once more.
76 incite Verb UNKNOWN 4075 Her hesitance incited his rage once more.
77 pleadingly Adverb UNKNOWN 4076 She looked up pleadingly at the two women that held her, but both seemed impassive, even somehow pleased by it all, by the sight of her, and of Connor - seemed pleased by her helplessness and their part in it.
78 helplessness Noun UNKNOWN 4077 The centaur understood what the man was feeling, the sense of his own loss those years before and the helplessness now in the face of a repeat of that disaster.
79 magistrate Noun UNKNOWN 4078 "We shall let the magistrate, Abbot Dobrinion, determine her fate in the morning.
80 blister Verb UNKNOWN 4079 He burned and blistered, then browned, darker and darker, taking on the leathery appearance of those seasoned sailors around him.
81 leathery Noun UNKNOWN 4080 He burned and blistered, then browned, darker and darker, taking on the leathery appearance of those seasoned sailors around him.
82 scraggly Adverb UNKNOWN 4081 He tried to keep clean shaven, as did his monk companions, but there was no blade fine enough, and soon all three had scraggly beards.
83 romantic Adjective UNKNOWN 4082 All romantic notions Avelyn had held concerning sea voyages were long gone, washed away by the slow, creaking, rolling reality.
84 forbid Verb UNKNOWN 4083 Even to utter the, name of the island without Father Abbot's permission was forbidden.
85 including Noun UNKNOWN 4084 Even if he beat these two, others were coming fast, including the one with the glowing spike!
86 crimson Noun UNKNOWN 4085 Soft blues and purples, vivid oranges and sometimes a deep crimson lined the night sky, lifting hearts and spirits.
87 unrelenting Adjective UNKNOWN 4086 Adjonas' voice was grim and unrelenting.
88 waylay Verb UNKNOWN 4087 "They waylay ships simply to kill.
89 newfound Noun UNKNOWN 4088 A light snow had begun to fall all across the forest, but it seemed to shy from the ranger's camp, from the heat of the ranger's fire, from the warmth of Brother Avelyn's newfound home.
90 pillage Noun UNKNOWN 4089 They attack only to pillage enough stores to get them to the next ship and for the simple thrill of the hunt and torture."
91 mister Noun UNKNOWN 4090 "Fill our sails, Mister Smealy," he instructed.
92 trader Noun UNKNOWN 4091 "Yach, trader, give her up!
93 operation Singular UNKNOWN 4092 Adjonas motioned to Bunkus Smealy; this was Quintall's operation now, and the Windrunner captain, with no other apparent options, was more than willing to give the sturdy monk his chance.
94 smoothly Adverb UNKNOWN 4093 The barrelboat closed - fifty yards, forty, twenty - cutting the water smoothly.
95 diagonal Noun UNKNOWN 4094 Then it jerked suddenly and its straight run shifted to the diagonal.
96 ladder Noun UNKNOWN 4095 The dwarf caught the gem securely, but surrendered his hold on the ladder.
97 hatchway Noun UNKNOWN 4096 He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.
98 evilly Adverb UNKNOWN 4097 The dwarf lifted its sword, grinning evilly, and let out a wail that shook Avelyn to the marrow of his bones :as he lay prone not far away.
99 spindly Adverb UNKNOWN 4098 With their heavy bodies and spindly limbs, powries were not strong swimmers, and Quintall easily overtook the dazed creature, pushing it under the water and gaining a seat atop its shoulders.
100 temporarily Adverb UNKNOWN 4099 The barrelboat was disabled temporarily, but the fight was hardly over.
101 concert Noun UNKNOWN 4100 Powries and sharks worked in concert, so it was said, but apparently there were limits to such friendship.
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